You two get invited to other people's events, but then hardly anyone shows up for yours? After they RSVP?

Yes. Well, sort of. The events other people invite us to are usually at a public venue, like a bar or club, where nobody's really in charge and it's just a bunch of people meeting up in a non-intimate environment. I like this, but I don't like having to shout and ask people to repeat themselves because it's very loud at a lot of these and it's hard to talk to people. The events we're hosting are at our house, so if nobody shows up it'd just be the two of us waiting around for hours, or until we decide to call the whole thing off.

We invite some friends and some acquaintances, and nobody really shows up.

I feel like it's worth pointing out that all of these people come over to our house all the time individually, they just won't come if it's an event.